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In that case I'd recommend to use a paid service like Dropbox (or Google Drive, or any alternative).

Store your files in the dropbox folder and they will be safe (plus sync across devices and file history).

Dropbox and Google drive will happily delete your files if you copy over them by accident. They're not really a backup service.

Right now I just have Dropbox, but soon I plan to get a NAS and just have it sync to Dropbox. That way I get the convience of Dropbox while also still having a backup if Dropbox fails.

That's still not a backup though. If you delete or corrupt a file from your NAS, that change will be synced to Dropbox.

Backup and sync are two different things.

But Dropbox has file version history and folder rewind.

Dropbox allows you to restore previous files, for a time, using their web interface.

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